Being that it is the end of the month today, I took a moment to reflect back on the last 30 days and one of the things that really bugged me is that I slipped off my 98% Diet about a week and a half ago.  Once again an area of my life that has a lot of importance to me took up a lot of my time so I really just didn’t have the “energy” to put forth the effort to prepare and eat healthy meals and to work out.  Of course once you miss one day it’s easy to miss two, and so on and so on.

So today I was thinking about a solution to this because this type of thing WILL happen in life.  For example, imagine if you get the flu and you can’t go to the gym.  Or you get into a car accident and you can’t write blog articles because you’re in the hospital.  Or you’re stressed out about your relationship because you had a big fight, so you don’t spend any time working on your new business.

I thought of a cool little strategy that I’m going to try out.  I call this strategy the strategy of MicroActions.  Here’s how they work.

When you’re doing your planning and visualizing for a specific category in life take the time to create a list of MicroActions on top of your normal plans.  Lets take health and fitness for example.  My action plan is to eat healthy 98% of the time, drink water 6 times a day 98% of the time and workout every day 98% of the time.  So, for example my workout could be 45minutes per day.  So what is a MicroAction?

MicroActions are things that can be done in 1 minute or less, no matter how busy you are in life.  What you do is you come up with 5 MicroActions to add to your plan.  So, for example, I just created these 5 MicroActions for my health and fitness plan:

1. Do as many pushups as I can in 60 seconds.
2. Drink two glasses of water.
3. Close my eyes for 60 seconds and visualize my newly sculpted healthy body.
4. Do 60 seconds of stretching.
5. Do situps for 60 seconds.

Ok, so those are 5 MicroActions that I get to choose from for my health and fitness plan.  So lets say that it’s time to go to bed tonight and I’ve totally fallen off my diet, I haven’t exercised or anything and I’m using the excuse that “I just didn’t have the time to do anything today.”, now I would pull out my list of MicroActions and just DO ONE.  No they are not as good as sticking to the plan, but they will still move you forward even if it’s just a little tiny bit.  Also, I think they will have a cleansing effect of bringing out any false beliefs that are really causing me to not follow through. 

Applying the same process to blogging, I am inventing something on my blog that I’ll call MicroBlog.  When I can’t hit my posting schedule because I supposedly don’t have a lot of time to write an article, I will just log on and post a MicroBlog.  A MicroBlog will just be a little tiny blog post that takes 60 seconds or less (or more if I want) to post something.  It can be as simple of an entry as “When you stretch a rubberband far enough it will not return to it’s original size.  It will be slightly bigger.  Same with the human mind.”  BOOM, there’s a MicroBlog.

I’m going to try this out and see how I like it.

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